sodomia

sodomia [LL sodoma+-ia], form of sexual intercourse regarded as unnatural or immoral, esp. between men, sodomy. s1311 quia nolebat ~iam committere cum eo, recessit a servitio suo Ann. Lond. 192; lex continencie sacerdocio annexa, que in prejudicium feminarum fuit primitus introducta, inducit ~iam in universalem sanctam ecclesiam Concl. Loll. XII 3; ornatus virorum ‥ plura mala causavit, in superbiendo et in fornicando et in adulterando et in ~ia Gascoigne Loci 144.